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Feb. 14, 2015 — Protecting people's privacy in an age of online big data is difficult, but doing so when using visual representations of such things as social network data may present unique challenges, according to ... full story

Feb. 10, 2015 — Anyone could call up or modify several million pieces of customer data online including names, addresses and e-mails. Three students were able to show this for 40,000 online databases in both Germany ... full story

Feb. 9, 2015 — Connecting different kinds of devices, not just computers and communications devices, to the Internet could lead to new ways of working with a wide range of machinery, sensors, domestic and other ... full story

Jan. 29, 2015 — Just four fairly vague pieces of information -- the dates and locations of four purchases -- are enough to identify 90 percent of the people in a data set recording three months of credit-card ... full story

Jan. 12, 2015 — Researchers have found that, based on enough Facebook Likes, computers can judge your personality traits better than your friends, family and even your partner. Using a new algorithm, researchers ... full story

Jan. 7, 2015 — Employees who are suffering from burnout are more likely to make spontaneous and irrational decisions. Analysis showed that participants who showed signs of burnout displayed more spontaneous and ... full story

Jan. 7, 2015 — New research may lead to greatly improved security of information transfer over the internet. Physicists have demonstrated the potential for 'quantum steering' to be used to enhance data security ... full story

Nov. 25, 2014 — Five-year survival estimates have been published for 25.7 million cancer patients diagnosed with one of 10 common cancers and 75,000 children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia between 1995 ... full story

Nov. 25, 2014 — Bitcoin is the new money: minted and exchanged on the Internet. Faster and cheaper than a bank, the service is attracting attention from all over the world. But a big question remains: are the ... full story

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Mobile World Looks to 5G

Reuters - Business Video Online (Mar. 2, 2015) — The wireless industry&apos;s annual conference gets underway in Barcelona with 85,000 executives taking part and numerous new smartphones and watches being launched. As Ivor Bennett reports from the show the race for 5G is one of the key themes.
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GOP Voices Concern Over Net Neutrality Vote

AP (Feb. 25, 2015) — The debate surrounding net neutrality was on full display at a congressional hearing Wednesday, a day before the FCC is set to vote on on whether to put Internet service in the same regulatory camp as telephone communications. (Feb. 25)
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Cyber Gang Hitting Banks for Big Bucks

Reuters - News Video Online (Feb. 16, 2015) — Up to 100 banks and other finanicial institutions around the world have been hit by one of the most sophisicated cyber attacks to strike the finance industry, according to a Russian security company. As Joel Flynn reports, it&apos;s the latest in the online battle between criminals and law enforcement.
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Mar. 2, 2015 — Does the child of a person with a heritable form of cancer have the right to access their parent's genetic information after death? What if no consent was ever established? Biomedical ethicists ... full story

Feb. 26, 2015 — The number of active shooter incidents in US hospitals has increased over the last decade to a frequency of more than one a month. In a new article, authors suggest that hospitals examine their ... full story

Feb. 24, 2015 — Healthcare professionals should be helped to speak up if they become aware of threats to patient safety or wrongdoing. But as one investigator reports, it's not easy for doctors in India to ... full story

Feb. 24, 2015 — India's private healthcare sector 'treats patients as revenue generators' argues a senior doctor in a new article. A second article argues that private healthcare providers in India ... full story

Feb. 14, 2015 — Protecting people's privacy in an age of online big data is difficult, but doing so when using visual representations of such things as social network data may present unique challenges, ... full story

Feb. 12, 2015 — Experience with the Ebola outbreak highlights local health departments' essential role in responding to global health threats posed by infectious diseases, according to a new ... full story

Feb. 12, 2015 — A new study finds that users on OKCupid and mobile-based Tinder aren’t able to determine social norms or effective match-making techniques on the services, so they use Reddit to learn tips about ... full story

Feb. 10, 2015 — Anyone could call up or modify several million pieces of customer data online including names, addresses and e-mails. Three students were able to show this for 40,000 online databases in both Germany ... full story

Feb. 9, 2015 — Connecting different kinds of devices, not just computers and communications devices, to the Internet could lead to new ways of working with a wide range of machinery, sensors, domestic and other ... full story

Feb. 3, 2015 — In our increasingly digital world, the balance between privacy and free speech is tenuous, at best. But we often overlook the important ways in which privacy is necessary to protect our cherished ... full story

Feb. 3, 2015 — Food insecurity creates a host of unhealthy consequences. The roads leading there can be very different. A new study examined four risk factors for families that can lead to varying degrees of ... full story

Jan. 29, 2015 — Just four fairly vague pieces of information -- the dates and locations of four purchases -- are enough to identify 90 percent of the people in a data set recording three months of credit-card ... full story

Jan. 26, 2015 — "Precision medicine" is becoming a national catchphrase after President Obama highlighted it in his State of the Union address. But what exactly is it? In a new article, an expert describes ... full story

Jan. 26, 2015 — Unemployment benefits do not discourage job seekers from returning to the workforce, according to a study that analyzes the Spanish system of unemployment protection from a legal and economic ... full story

Jan. 15, 2015 — No software-based technique can fully replace the bulk collection of signals intelligence, but methods can be developed to more effectively conduct targeted collection and to control the usage of ... full story

Jan. 12, 2015 — Researchers have found that, based on enough Facebook Likes, computers can judge your personality traits better than your friends, family and even your partner. Using a new algorithm, researchers ... full story

Jan. 9, 2015 — The heated national debate on complex issues related to health care was ignited by the implementation the Affordable Health Care Act in January 2014. There is no national system that adequately ... full story

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